There was a climbing accident on Lover's Leap on Sunday, around 11am. We have observed a fire and rescue team loading an injured person onto a litter at the base of Main Wall, just left of The Line. A CHP chopper hovered close to the wall and to the ground and winched the litter onboard. If anyone knows what happened please post the details so that the rest of us could learn and hopefully avoid (pulled gear? broken hold?)

With that, wishing the speedy recovery and better luck to the injured party.

Word is that a guy decked on Bear's Reach from 40' up on the first pitch. He was pulling on a flake after the 5.6 runout and pulled two of his three pieces. He landed on the flat, sandy area and not the surrounding talus. Climbers on Scimitar had a cell phone and called 911. Apparently, he may just end up with broken ribs and a bumped noggin. His belayer also got smacked in the head by a cam that ripped. Neither were wearing helmets.

I know that exact move and agree that's probably the routes crux.
The entire route has tricky pro and is not exactly a beginners 5.7 imho. Not saying they were beginners, but 2 pieces did rip and there is reasonably good pro to be had on that first section.
Lucky guy if no helmet.

i agree, that little layback section after the traverse left on dikes is probably the crux of that climb. sorry to hear about the injured, but it sounds like they got pretty lucky, all things considered. here's to a speedy recovery.

Bummer for the climbing team.
I hope they both have a full and speedy recovery.

Weeg, that lie back move is the actual spot?
I ask because the first person with info just said "...40' up..." Then somebody throws out that the linebacker is the crux (which could be, it is a 5.7 move).

That seems like an odd place to deck as u can get super easy bomber gear in that flake making for like a 1-2 foot fall. I was thinking more likely the traverse to the flake as an entry level climber could struggle with gear getting to the traverse, then there is none on the traverse till u get to the well protected lieback..

Guess it's not that important, just curious.

Again, heal up!

EDIT
in my GoPro (previous page) vid you can see that the lieback flake will just eat gear

Yeah, it always seemed I got bomber gear in that crack, but then again, I've never fallen on the route and done it many, many times over the last 35 years. It was the first route I did there when I was 15 back in--gulp--'77.